I run trend micro antivirus, ad-aware, and spybot. my IE still keeps poping up freakin' ads (loads an IE window by itself, even when IE is not running). i know it's IE because my firefox won't do the same thing.

any suggestions?

 

Spyware is so deep that even Microsoft has given up on the Anti-Spyware program they created.


It's bad.

 

Im having the same problem, its driving me nuts. Im about to just give up and get another mac, and keep this piece just for games.

 

download mozilla firefox. same as IE but without the problems you encounter with IE, such as spyware and all that other stuff. I've been using firefox for a while now and have not gotten one pop up ad!

http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

hope that helps you out!

 

thanks but i'm already using firefox.

anyone know of a good product to clean this crap out? even when i'm NOT using the explorer it loads the freakin ads!!

 

Heard good things about HijackThis.

 

I use Spyhunter 2.0 from http://enigmasoftwaregroup.com/

I bought it.. but if you want.. you can jus download the free one... and let it search it out.. and it tells you where each spyware file is in the registry..etc.. so you could jus follow the path and manually delete each one if you are ghetto

Always worked like a charm for me

 

They didn't 'give up', they renamed it to better market the program.

Microsoft Anti-Spyware to Microsoft Defender.

As for your problems, you should try Defender to see if it cleans it

 

I use Webroot with great results.

 

Try this, I usually have ok luck... maybe 8 out of 10 times doing this.

Start --> Run --> msconfig then go to the startup tab. Uncheck everything that looks suspicious. Use the path to help figure out what an application actually is. Google the other stuff. Things that dont have a path or look odd probably are.

Once you disable the suspicious items, you'll need to reboot. Then run your anti-spyware scans. On a couple occasions I had to do all this once or twice.

If this doesn't work... "format c:" :-)